Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today, through the eyes of the Search Engine Roundtable and other search forums on the web.
Search Engine Roundtable Stories:
- Mozilla Drops Yahoo For Google As Default Search Provider In Firefox
Three years ago, Mozilla dropped Google as the default search provider in their popular web browser, Firefox... - Google Messaging Feature Now Shows Wait Times
When Google My Business first launched messaging within the platform, they said they would measure the response time and then show a notification to your customers who are about to message you about the typical wait time... - Google Maps To Launch Brand New Design
Google announced they have redesigned Google Maps and will be rolling it out to users over the upcoming weeks across "all Google products that incorporate Google Maps, including the Assistant, Search, Earth, and Android Auto... - Google Tests New Version Of People Also Search For Box
Google seems to be testing a small variation of the "people also search for" box in the Google search results. This one is a box below the search result snippets that lists out related queries to expand you search... - Chinua Achebe Google Logo For Nigerian Novelist 87th Birthday
Today on Google's home page is a special Google logo, a Doodle, for the Nigerian novelist Chinua Achebe. He was born on November 16, 1930 in Ogidi, Anambra and passed just a few years ago at the age of 82 on March 21, 2013 in Boston... - Wall Of Mailboxes At Google
So at one of the Google offices they have these old fashion mailboxes, lots of them, hanging on a single wall. I am not sure why, if it is function or design or both - but I suspect it is not functio
Other Great Search Forum Threads:
- Google Search Help Center - Quick Link Guide (Long Version), Google Web Search Help
- @kgblanchette We don't do anything special for tablet pages. For canonicalization, we use rel=canonical, redirects, internal links, sitemaps, etc. -- alig… https://t.co/raTvBtuY1Y, John Mueller on Twitter
- Lots of new features rolling out to the ##GoogleAssistant to make it easier f..., Google+ - Google Developers
- Sometimes flowers seem to spring from difficult conditions. But why? Can yo..., Google+ - Dan Russell
- The Rise, Fall and Resurrection of Exact Match Domains (EMDs), WebmasterWorld
- Twitter Working on New Authentication and Verification Program, WebmasterWorld
